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The Art of the Porcupine
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Yvonne Walker Keshick, Credit: Michael G. Stewart
2014 National Heritage Fellow and member of the Odawa Nation, Yvonne Walker Keshick describes the long history of making decorative art from quills.

Bought by WSLR, KFCF FM, KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: Oct 10, 2014
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 5
Song and conversation with "Chunky" Sanchez
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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For forty years, Chunky Sanchez has playing and singing the stories of the Chicano people.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Oct 03, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
A Conversation with Carla Perlo, founder and artistic director of Dance Place
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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How Dance Place’s open door policy helped transform an underserved neighborhood into a vital arts district. -

Bought by KPIP-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Sep 26, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
A Conversation with author Elizabeth McCracken
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Elizabeth McCracken, Credit: Edward Carey
Elizabeth McCracken gives us her take on the differences in writing novels, short stories, and tweets.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 15, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
Scott Miller Interview #1421
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Scott Miller, Credit: Official Press Photo
Scott Miller is miles away from his days with the V-Roys, but Knoxville still claims him as their own, even if he has since returned to rural Virgi...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KRPS, WSLR, KKRN, WLPR and more


  • Added: Aug 04, 2014
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caleb Caudle Interview #1418
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Caleb Caudle Paint Another Layer On My Heart, Credit: Official Album Cover
Caleb Caudle left North Carolina for New Orleans, but he's been on the road touring so much in the past year, that he almost forgot about the near-...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, WLPR , KRPS, WSLR, KFOK-LPFM and more


  • Added: Jun 24, 2014
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 8
Interview With John Howie, Jr (Music Version)
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: John Howie, Jr & The Rosewood Bluff, Everything Except Goodbye, Credit: Cover Art By Skillet Gilmore
John Howie, Jr. has been regionally successful with his prior band, The Two Dollar Pistols, but when he broke up the band to bring in other influen...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KRPS, KKRN, WLPR , and KSRQ


  • Added: May 13, 2014
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 5
Author Jenny Bowen, “Wish You Happy Forever"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Though she identifies herself as just an ordinary person with a dream, au contraire, Jenny’s accomplishments are stunning. She is an American who...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Apr 12, 2014
  • Length: 09:53
  • Purchases: 2
A Conversation with Sherrie Maricle
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Sherrie Maricle and Diva, Credit: Shaun Mader
Sherrie Maricle has played with Jazz legends, leads an all-woman big band, and forges new roads for woman in jazz.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Apr 03, 2014
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 1
The Dirty Guv'nahs Interview #1409
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Hearts On Fire, Credit: Dirty Guvnahs album cover
Sloane Spencer interviews James Trimble of the band, The Dirty Guv'nahs. The Knoxville, TN group released its third full studio album this week, H...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, WLPR , KRPS, KKRN, WLPR and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2014
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 8
St. Paul & The Broken Bones Interview PODCAST/No Music
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock PODCASTS
Caption: Half The City, Credit: Album Cover
Paul Janeway of St. Paul & The Broken Bones brings his Pentecostal preacher past to this Southern Soul band from Birmingham, Alabama.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2014
  • Length: 25:56
Country Fried Rock #1401: Interview With The Devil Makes Three
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: I'm A Stranger Here, Credit: Album Cover
The Devil Makes Three‘s fourth record, I’m A Stranger Here, brings on board some serious heavyweights for the band’s New West Records debut. Produ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, WLPR , KHNS, KFOK-LPFM, KGLT and more


  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 7
Author Doris Kearns Goodwin, a biographer of presidents
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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In “Bully Pulpit” Doris focuses on the friendship and eventual falling out of Presidents Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft while describing t...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 19, 2013
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 2
Country Fried Rock Interviews The Whiskey Gentry
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Album Cover
Lauren Staley fronts The Whiskey Gentry, a roots band from Atlanta that draws heavily from bluegrass and traditional country storytelling. With a ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KRPS, WSLR, WLPR , KKRN and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2013
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 7
Middle Ground Pilot 2
From: Middle Ground
Series: Middle Ground
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The second pilot episode for the new show, Middle Ground, which focuses on news, politics and culture from middle America.

Bought by NPR Illinois


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 56:30
  • Purchases: 1
Country Fried Rock Interviews Ron Gallo of Toy Soldiers
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
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What happens when half of a band does not go on their first long tour, and the rest of the band members bail while on the road? Find out how Ron G...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, WLPR , KKRN, KSRQ, and KMXT


  • Added: Sep 08, 2013
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 5
Author Michael Benanav who crossed the Sahara on a camel
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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In “Men of Salt” this adventurer and outdoorsman travels from Timbuktu to the salt mines deep in the Mali desert. He traveled eighteen hours daily ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Aug 17, 2013
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 2
Author Kent Haruf, Narrator of Holt County, Colorado
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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A National Book Award finalist, Kent writes about the residents of a small town in fictional Holt County on the plains of eastern Colorado. His new...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 1
Author Susan Orlean and a famous Hollywood dog, "Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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A dog-loving journalist, Susan brings to life Rin Tin Tin, the orphaned German Shepherd found on a battlefield in Europe who became the most famous...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: May 09, 2013
  • Length: 09:57
  • Purchases: 2
Author Anthony Brandt and "The Man Who Ate His Boots"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Anthony, no stranger to faraway places himself, tells the harrowing history of the search for the Northwest Passage in "The Man Who Ate His Boots."...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 17, 2013
  • Length: 10:11
  • Purchases: 1
Irish Author Roddy Doyle and "The Last Republic"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Winner of the Booker Prize, former teacher and one of Ireland’s most famous authors, Roddy talks about his last book in a trilogy, "The Last Republ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 10, 2013
  • Length: 10:05
  • Purchases: 1
Independent Book Stores Speak Up for the Written Word - on ThoughtCast!
From: Jenny Attiyeh
Caption: Kate Rosenberger@Dog Eared Books, Credit: Jenny Attiyeh
Be it a curmudgeonly Galwegian on the West coast of Ireland, an erudite scholar in Dublin or a literary motorcyclist 'flower child' of San Francisc...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Dec 20, 2012
  • Length: 56:24
  • Purchases: 1
Native Word: Julie Cajune
From: Vision Maker Media
Series: Native Word
Caption: Julie Cajune
Julie (Salish) is the executive producer for "Heart of the Bitterroot" and also produced and directed the film "Remembering the Songs." These proje...

  • Added: May 14, 2012
  • Length: 12:29
Steve Pinker’s “Better Angels”: Dodging Our Own Bullet?
From: Open Source
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My guest this hour is Steven Pinker, who has written a game-changer on the little matter of how quickly humanity is headed for hell or redemption. ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 13, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Native Sounds: Quese Imc
From: Vision Maker Media
Series: Native Sounds
Caption: Quese Imc
Tobias Grant (Omaha) speaks with Native Hip Hop artist Quese Imc.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Jun 23, 2011
  • Length: 09:04
  • Purchases: 2